Innovation and entrepreneurship skills are important issues which need to be mastered today to produce an effective 21st century society. Some universities offer degrees or other courses in these subjects, whilst others incorporate these topics in a variety of different degrees. But whatever approach the university takes these topics are quite challenging to teach, and also difficult to research. Courses and modules on these subjects are often quite theoretical and often they neither deliver the practical knowhow required nor do they inspire our students to become innovators or entrepreneurs. Fortunately some good work is being done in this field in various parts of the world and this annual competition highlights such initiatives.
If you are involved in the teaching of innovation and/or entrepreneurship, we invite you to participate in the 9th Innovation and Entrepreneurship Teaching Excellence Awards to showcase new ideas and new approaches for teaching innovation and entrepreneurship in higher education institutions and in the organisational environment. The final round of the competition will be run alongside the 19th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Paris, France on the 26 – 27 September 2024.
The 2023 winners of Awards were the initiative: Promoting Technopreneurship through Educational Initiatives, Sweta Patnaik and Shamil Isaacs, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa You can read these case histories and the other finalists in the 2023 Anthology of Case Histories, available from www.academic-bookshop.com
To enter the competition we ask you in the first instance to submit an abstract of up to 300 words using the online submission form describing the work you wish to draw to our attention to. If your work is suitable we will invite you to submit a case history of no more than 3000 words which will be considered as an entry to the competition. A panel of international adjudicators will evaluate the case histories. Your full case history submission should be structured around the following headings:
- Introduction to the nature of the teaching/training initiative and its specific objectives
- The infrastructure i.e. people, systems, hardware, software etc. required to launch the initiative
- The challenges that were encountered, how they developed and how they were overcome
- How the initiative was received by the learners and other participants
- The learning outcomes that were achieved and how they were measured and evaluated
- Plans to further develop the initiative.
The judges will consider all submissions received by the closing date and authors of the top rated initiatives will be invited to register and attend the conference in France on 26 - 27 September 2024 to present their case histories to the judges and conference participants. Finalists will also have their case histories published in a book and a prize will be awarded to the initiative judged to show the most creative thinking with regards teaching Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
All presenters in the awards must attend the physical conference.
Important Dates
Abstract Submission 17 April 2024
Notification of Abstract Acceptance 01 May 2024
Full Case History Submission 10 June 2024
Finalists announced 11 July 2024
Click here to Submit your entry
If you have any queries please email: marti@academic-conferences.org
Previous Winners
Winner 2023
Promoting Technopreneurship through Educational Initiatives
Sweta Patnaik and Shamil Isaacs, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa
Winner 2022
Case History of EntreTime: European Train-The-Trainer Programme for Teaching through Entrepreneurship
Mats Westerberg, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, et al
Joint Winners 2021
Learning Innovation for Enterprise: Skills for the LIFE of an entrepreneurial student
Roisin Lyons et al
Promoting Entrepreneurial, Digital and Intercultural Competences with an Interdisciplinary International Virtual Innovation Challenge
Audrey Stolze and Gudrun Socher
Winners 2020
Establishment of Student-Run STORE for Entrepreneurship Education
Christina W.Y. Wong and Magnum ManLok Lam
Joint Winners 2019
Innovate21: An Innovation & Entrepreneurship Teaching Methodology for the Development of 21st Century Skills
Paul Flynn, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
Community Entrepreneurship: An Innovative Approach to Create Change Agents for the Community
Angela Hamouda, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland